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Re: Too many mailer daemon notices



On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:34:33AM -0700, Ben Damm wrote:
 Lately I've been deluged by email from mailer daemons.  I understand
that some of this is a new worm, but much of it is backscatter from
spammers using my domain in forged emails.

This is not really a mutt topic.  I find that this type of message
usually contains a dubious attachment.  I usually filter using them.  From
my procmailrc file:

#dump viruses. list these rules first
:0B:
* name=".*\.(pif|scr|exe|com|bat)
/dev/null

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